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Hiring Practices
392 published works
Employment Law
Employers – Are You Aware of the Potential Pitfalls in Using the Internet and Social Networking Sites?
As most employers are aware, the use of social networking sites such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter is on the rise as both employees and employers utilize these sites…
Employment Law Watch
New Law Forces Employers to Think Twice Before Hiring and Firing Employees in New York
By David L. Weissman, Cindy Schmitt Minniti, Daniel A. Schleifstein
The New York Legislature recently passed a new law that requires greater communication and transparency from employers in the hiring and firing process. Employers who fail to comply risk incurring…
Reilly Workplace Investigations Blog
Asking Job Applicants About Criminal Convictions
By Debra Reilly
A benefit of using employment applications in hiring is the ability of the employer to directly ask an applicant if he/she has a criminal history that would show up if…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
The Basics: Offer Letters of Employment in Connecticut
Continuing the summer series of "basics" of various employment laws (see prior installments here, here and here), this week the topic is offer letters. Specifically, at the time of hiring…
InsureReinsure
A Catch-22 for Employers: Supreme Court Rules Against City of New Haven in Reverse Discrimination Case
In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court in Ricci v. DeStefano offered little in the way of practical guidance to employers walking the fine line of race-neutral hiring…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Five Things Employers Can Learn from the Ricci v. DeStefano Case
Although I tipped my hand yesterday through some posts (here and here) and an interview with the Connecticut Law Tribune, here are some takeaways for employers from the Ricci v.…
Employment Law Matters
Use of subjective hiring criteria by employer is not unlawful, per se.
Recently, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed a company’s testing and interview procedure for new hires, and decided that certain subjective hiring criteria did not necessarily create a…
Labor Law Prof Blog
PING: Hiring in the Midst of a RecessionURL: http://labourlawblog.typepad.com/managementupdates/2009/05/hiring-in-the-midst-of-a-recession.htmlIP: 204.9.178.6BLOG NAME: Thoughts from a Management LawyerDATE: 05/07/2009 04:08:50 AMSome weeks ago, I had a post about In the Midst of the Gloom and Doom…. A Good News Story. Workplace Prof Blog writes about recessionary hiring and a New York Times article Bright Spot in Downturn: New Hiring Is Robust: But not everyone knows the bri…
Steven Greenhouse (New York Times) has an article on an relatively untold story: hiring during the recession. As Greenhouse describes, there is still a lot of hiring that occurs even…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Expanding E-Verify Would Hurt Economic Stimulus
From the Immigration Policy Center:Efforts by anti-immigrant groups to persuade Congress to expand the "E-Verify" program as part of the economic stimulus bill would hinder, not help, the U.S. economy's…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Political Hiring at DOJ’s Civil Rights Division
As we've posted on several times before, the DOJ has been hit with numerous allegations of blatant political hiring over the past several years (see here for a recent post). …